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| Egypt anything but peaceful on anniversary of uprising Friday, Jan 25, 2013 06:24 PM PST  Seven people were shot dead and another 456 people were injured across the country amid protests against their president. Full Story | Top |
| Spies, saboteurs, couriers and cooks: Women served from the start Friday, Jan 25, 2013 02:31 PM PST  American women have served and died on the nation's battlefields from the first. They were nurses and cooks, spies and couriers in the Revolutionary War. Some disguised themselves as men to fight for the Union or the Confederacy. Yet the U.S. military's official acceptance of women in combat took more than two centuries. Full Story | Top |
| Night-sensitive satellite spots elusive clouds Friday, Jan 25, 2013 06:56 PM PST  The nighttime viewing capabilities of the Suomi NPP satellite are giving earth scientists new views of the planet's surface once the sun goes down. Full Story | Top |
| Bar codes on Brazil sidewalks give tourist info Friday, Jan 25, 2013 07:02 PM PST  Rio de Janeiro is mixing technology with tradition to provide tourists information about the city by embedding bar codes into the black and white mosaic sidewalks that are a symbol of the city. Full Story | Top |
| Worth a thousand words: Vietnam photos from the frontline Friday, Jan 25, 2013 07:00 AM PST  Full Story | Top |
| Obama in hot water over recess appointments Friday, Jan 25, 2013 12:22 PM PST  The White House on Friday expressed strong disagreement with a court ruling that the president's recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board violated the Constitution. "The decision is novel and unprecedented," White House press secretary Jay Carney said at Friday's briefing. "It contradicts 150 years of practice by Democratic and Republican administrations." He added: [...] Full Story | Top |
| U.S. military building space robot to recycle satellites Friday, Jan 25, 2013 06:55 PM PST  A Pentagon project to harvest and reuse parts from dead satellites is gaining steam, and a new video shows how the far the military program has come in its first few months. Full Story | Top |
| Officials accuse NFL of playing favorites Friday, Jan 25, 2013 05:18 PM PST  After a season of replacement referees, botched calls and lockout-driven controversy, several NFL officials remain deeply upset about the grading system used to choose the referee for the Super Bowl. Full Story | Top |
| Struggling dolphin dies in polluted New York City canal Friday, Jan 25, 2013 04:53 PM PST  The animal, a common dolphin, died in the shallow waters of Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal, said Valentina Sherlock, an employee at The Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation. Full Story | Top |
| Video shows plane struck by lightning, passengers’ ho-hum reactions Friday, Jan 25, 2013 03:15 PM PST What's scarierâ€"being in an airplane struck by lightning or being in an airplane stuck by lightning and finding yourself surrounded by people who aren't freaking out? [Related: Dangerous airplane stunt caught on tape] We tend to go with the latter, and we cite the above video as proof. The U.K.'s Telegraph reports that a passenger [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama's push for immigration reform is coming...starting on Tuesday Friday, Jan 25, 2013 12:46 PM PST  The White House announced in a statement that President Obama will travel to Las Vegas, Nev., on Tuesday to speak about immigration reform. Full Story | Top |
| Is Apple the new Microsoft? Friday, Jan 25, 2013 03:59 PM PST  The only question now is whether Apple is just going through a short-term transition or is slowly becoming a modern day version of its long-time nemesis Microsoft. Full Story | Top |
| California natives losing tough battle against invasive species Friday, Jan 25, 2013 01:39 PM PST  "What we see is a serious invasion, meaning that as one or more invasive species start to become abundant, the native plants shrink down in their habitat." Full Story | Top |
| Wis. sheriff: 'Safety is no longer a spectator sport,' get gun training Friday, Jan 25, 2013 02:42 PM PST  His new radio ad calls on residents to defend themselves because the old model of having a citizen call 911 and wait for help isn't always the best option. Full Story | Top |
| Pentagon begins cinching in its belt Friday, Jan 25, 2013 02:18 PM PST  The Pentagon has begun laying off many of its 46,000 temporary and contract workers and delaying maintenance on aircraft and ships to slow spending due to fears it may be hit by new budget cuts, Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said on Friday. The Pentagon also plans to formally notify Congress in the next few weeks that if further budget cuts take place on March 1, it will furlough most of its 800,000 full-time civilian employees, probably by asking them to take a day off per week for the last 22 weeks of the fiscal year, Carter said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Virginia's electoral system works just fine, not a priority for GOP Friday, Jan 25, 2013 01:24 PM PST Despite all the discussion of a small movement in the Virginia legislature to change the state's rules to grant presidential electoral votes proportionately based on congressional districts, the effort is not a top concern for members of the Republican National Committee, who met here to re-elect a chairman this week. Virginia GOP Chairman Pat [...] Full Story | Top |
| Woman sues website after date nearly kills her Friday, Jan 25, 2013 03:53 PM PST  Mary Kay Beckman, 50, claims in a lawsuit filed earlier this month that she joined the website looking for a "healthy loving relationship," but instead was nearly killed. Full Story | Top |
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